The Viet Ecology Foundation has launched an online petition for concerned world citizens to join Professor Nguyen Hue Chi, the co-founder of the Bauxite Vietnam website and several thousands of Vietnamese citizens, scholars, scientists, and environmentalists to call for the Government of Vietnam to stop the mining projects in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
http://www.gopetition.com/petition/40122.html

January 13: Police search the house of the co-founder of the Bauxite Vietnam website, Nguyen Hue Chi, confiscate his computer, and then interrogate him daily until January 30.
December 31, 2009: The Gmail accounts of Nguyen Hue Chi and of Phung Lien Doan, an important contributor to the Bauxite Vietnam website, are hacked and fake letters are sent from both accounts to a large Vietnamese email list.

A neighbour of Nguyen Hue Chi, a literature professor who runs the website Bauxite Vietnam, said he had seen police searching Chi's house.
The professor's website criticizes the bauxite mines run by the Chinese state aluminum company Chalco in central Vietnam on security and environmental grounds.
Contacted by telephone, Chi said he and investigators (...) " />
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A neighbour of Nguyen Hue Chi, a literature professor who runs the website Bauxite Vietnam, said he had seen police searching Chi's house.

The professor's website criticizes the bauxite mines run by the Chinese state aluminum company Chalco in central Vietnam on security and environmental grounds.

Contacted by telephone, Chi said he and investigators were "working together in a friendly manner."

Lawyer Cu Huy Ha Vu, who has filed a lawsuit against Vietnam's prime minister over the mines, said he was sure the search was related to the professor's website.